Electric vehicle maker Ultraviolette Automotive is getting ready to scale its production as it launches its new facility –Big Global Ambition (BIGGA) Factory- near Hosur in Tamil Nadu. Ultraviolette’s cumulative investment in this facility over the next four to five years is set to be around Rs 779 crore.
Phase I will have capacity for around 2.5 lakh vehicles, while Phase II, expected after 2029, will double this to 5 lakh units. Ultraviolette’s future product portfolio includes multiple motorcycle segments (Sports, Crossover, Cruiser, Street) and scooters, including the highly anticipated Tesseract electric scooter.
“In the next three to four years, we forecast that the product mix for Ultraviolette would be 50-50 between scooters and motorcycles. The immediate volume ramp-up is more skewed towards the Tesseract and the intent is to scale to about 10,000 units a month as quickly as possible through the new facility,” Narayan Subramaniam, Co-founder & CEO, Ultraviolette, told businessline. The paperwork for the land allotment is on, and the next step would be to commence plant development activities, he adds.
He expects the new facility, set to come up at SIPCOT Industrial Park, Shoolagiri, to simplify their supply chain given that a large part of their vendor and supplier ecosystem today is already consolidated around Hosur and Chennai.
In terms of direct employment, it would scale to about 2,000 people in Phase 1 of operations and possibly double to 4,000 to 5,000 in Phase 2.
L-R – Ultraviolette co-founders Narayan Subramaniam and Niraj Rajmohan
Ultraviolette’s vision for BIGGA incorporates sustainability and automation techniques. The company is investing heavily in becoming a sustainability-oriented manufacturer; on automation, the battery line, currently semi-automated, will gradually move toward full automation in the new facility, Subramaniam said.
Advanced automation, including collaborative robots for sorting, welding and assembly, automated assembly fool-proofing and vision-based inspection systems, will be deployed across key manufacturing processes.
Speaking about localisation levels, Subramaniam says over 90 per cent of their components are already localised. “We make our chargers, motors, all of it locally. Even our battery pack is manufactured by us in-house,” he says. Like many players, the cell technology and the magnets needed for the EVs are still imported.
The founder anticipates steady growth in its motorcycle segment, but in the next two years, he also expects a ramp-up in the electric scooter segment, which has gained rapid momentum. “We are entering a well understood market with a superior product,” he said. In the near term, 10-15 per cent of its volumes will be exports, and the company hopes to grow exports to about 20-25 per cent by 2030.
Despite the industry’s capital-intensive nature, the founder says Ultraviolette is currently capitalised to execute the outlined expansion plan.
Ultraviolette designs and manufactures high-performance electric two-wheelers, with the F77 being its flagship e-motorcycle. Founded by Subramaniam and Niraj Rajmohan back in 2016, it is backed by Lingotto, TDK Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, Zoho Corporation, TVS Motors, Speciale Invest, and others. The company also exports its vehicles to 19 countries across Europe, including Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, the UK, and others.
The BIGGA Factory will operate in addition to Ultraviolette’s existing manufacturing facility in Bengaluru, Karnataka.
Published on September 10, 2026
